Entertainment Weekly (7/30/99, p.75) - "The voice is still deep, the subject matter is still sex, the songs are still long...and the orchestration is still layered, complex and hypnotic..." - Rating: B-Q (1/00, p.127) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...as rampant as a stallion...it's nevertheless greatly entertaining, the big man even committing musical adultery with 2 versions of 'The Longer We Make Love', one duet with Chaka Khan, the other with Lisa Stansfield..."90.76048

The Source (9/95, p.104) - "...LOVE'S TRAIN takes you from Barry White when he was the Love Unlimited Orchestra to the Dazz Band when they were named after a street in Cleveland, Ohio....True music historians will want this...for the sake of perserving the funk era..."0.5001495

Rolling Stone (2/5/98, p.62) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...On this collection of remixes, young Anglo-Indian and Anglo-Pakistani producers marry Khan's collaborations with Canadian guitarist Michael Brook to drum-and-bass, dub and trip-hop....there's still room for tradition in the sounds of the future."Spin (2/98, pp.107-108) - 6 (out of 10) - "...don't sneer at STAR RISE as a quick cash-in on the great singer's death last August. In fact, the record was mostly completed by then, and features work by the best of the Anglo-Asian underground--DJs and musicians who grew up with Khan the way first-wave hip-hoppers did with, say Barry White..."0.2917539